Elon Musk Slammed for Filling Orbit With Space Junk
SpaceX has launched over 6,000 Starlink internet satellites into low-Earth orbit, and is planning to bring that total to as many as 42,000 in the upcoming years.
Regulation hasn’t caught up with commercial entities like SpaceX building out mega-constellations in an increasingly cluttered orbit, as Wired reports, making what happens to these satellites when they’re retired an unknown.
Maybe we’ll see the first Dyson sphere one day. Only instead of a megastructure around the sun, it’s just Elon’s trash enveloping the entire planet